David Villani

The Berkeley Police Accountability Board, or PAB, met Wednesday to review materials being used to recruit the permanent director of police accountability and the police accountability investigator for the PAB.

Junior transfer Yasamin Hatefi is running for ASUC Senate with the Elevate Cal coalition on a platform of increasing transfer student representation.

Members of the Berkeley Mental Health Commission presented plans to divert mental health crisis responses away from Santa Rita Jail and the John George Psychiatric Hospital at Wednesday’s Police Accountability Board meeting.

As a result of a false report, Berkeley Drop-In Center director Jorge Colon was detained at gunpoint by Berkeley police in early February.

The U.S. Patent Office ruled Monday that patents for some CRISPR technologies do not belong to the university and other partner institutions.

A federal appeals judge ruled last week that Amer Alhaggagi, a Berkeley High School graduate who was sentenced to 15 years in high-security prison for providing material support to ISIS in 2019, would be receiving a reduced sentence.

Inmates of the Santa Rita Jail shared testimonies of abuse at a hearing for the final approval of a settlement to the Babu v. County of Alameda lawsuit.

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement Saturday announcing a proposed bill that would allow private citizens to sue to enforce California's ban on assault weapons.

Longtime Berkeley activist Wayne Hsiung was convicted of larceny and breaking and entering Monday for taking a sick goat from a North Carolina meat farm in Feb. 2018.

Berkeley City Council endorsed a development plan for the expansion of the Bayer HealthCare West Berkeley campus at its regular meeting Tuesday.